Deadline for travelling and educational grants for 2012 is 31 January 2012. Grants are preferably given to researchers who want to attend and present their results at EMRF and TRTF conferences and the annual meeting of ESMRMB.

The number of grants is limited.

HARALD ØSTENSEN DIES

17 June 2011. The global radiological community lost one of its most devoted and finest warriors for medical education and access to medical imaging in developing countries. The former head of medical imaging at the World Health Organization, Dr. Harald Østensen, died at age 65.

In 2007, The Round Table Foundation gave him its inaugural Humanitarian Award.

"For many years, Harald Østensen has exemplified decency and benevolence by organizing teaching courses and supporting appropriate means of medical imaging, particularly in countries with limited resources," the Award Committee stated at the presentation ceremony.

_Humanitarian Award 2007 to Harald Østensen
_Harald Østensen: "Imaging in Places with Limited Resources"

_EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2010 TO GOLMAN AND MARTI-BONMATI.

Mons, 20 May 2010. The Selection Committee has decided to award the European Magnetic Resonance Award for 2010 to John R. Griffith (Basic Sciences) and Stefan Neubauer (Medical Sciences).

John R. Griffiths was selected for his contributions to the applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy in oncology, and Stefan Neubauer for his contributions to anatomical and functional cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy.

_HANNS-JOACHIM WEINMANN DIES

Berlin, 4 December 2009. The magnetic resonance community lost one of its pioneers when Hanns-Joachim Weinmann, a long-time collaborator of Schering in Berlin, Germany (nowadays Bayer-Schering Pharma) died after a lengthy illness at the age of sixty.

Weinmann was the former head of MR imaging and x-ray research at Schering and co-developer of gadopentetate dimeglumine (Gd-DTPA, Magnevist), the world’s first commercially available MR contrast agent.

In recognition of his achievements in magnetic resonance imaging, Weinmann received the 1996 European Magnetic Resonance Award.

_EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2008 TO GOLMAN AND MARTI-BONMATI.

Valencia, 22 May 2008. The Selection Committee has decided to award the European Magnetic Resonance Award for 2008 to Klaes Golman (Basic Sciences) and Luis Martí- Bonmatí (Medical Sciences).

Klaes Golman has worked within the field of contrast media research for more than 30 years. He has been the main inventor and driving force behind the hyperpolarized 13-C MR imaging technology. Luis Martí-Bonmatí's main activities were focused upon clinical applications, neuroimaging and contrast enhancement in magnetic resonance imaging.

_FATHER OF MRI DIES AT AGE 77

27 March 2007. Paul Lauterbur, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for inventing magnetic resonance imaging, died at his home in Urbana, Illinois. He was 77.

He shared the Nobel Prize with Peter Mansfield of Nottingham.

Working at the Department of Chemistry of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he first described MRI, dubbed "zeugmatography" by him, in an article published in Nature in 1973. Many of the widely used techniques and applications in MRI were described by him and his research group in the 1970s and early 1980s.

He left Stony Brook in the late 1980s and moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received EMRF's European Magnetic Resonance Award in 1986.

Obituary

_EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2006 TO KUHL AND BITTOUN.

Vilnius, 16 June 2006. The Nominating Committee has decided to award the European Magnetic Resonance Award for 2006 to Christiane Kuhl and Jacques Bittoun for their contributions to basic and applied research in medical magnetic resonance.

_EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2004 TO PRUESSMANN AND AIME

Porto, 28 May 2004. The Nominating Committee has decided to award the European Magnetic Resonance Award for 2004 to Klaas P. Prüssmann and Silvio Aime.

Klaas P. Prüssmann received the Award "for his discoveries concerning parallel magnetic resonance imaging", Silvio Aime "for his inventive contributions to the development of MR contrast agents"

_DONATION: EMRF TO FURNISH SCIENTIFIC MR LIBRARY

Sophia-Antipolis, 15 April 2004. As the basis for the build-up of a MR research library, EMRF has bestowed scientific journals and books covering research and development in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy from their beginning, coverning some twenty-five years, to the Thuringian State Library in Jena, Germany. The donation consisted of more than one ton of publications.

_EMRF AT ECR

Vienna, 5 March 2004. For the first time, EMRF was represented with a booth at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna from 5 to 9 March 2004.

The exhibition gave an overview of EMRF's efforts in special topic conferences, continuing education, and humanitarian aid.

_NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2003 FOR
PAUL C. LAUTERBUR AND PETER MANSFIELD

Stockholm, 10 December 2003. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2003 has been awarded jointly to Paul C. Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging.Paul Lauterbur (born 1929) discovered the possibility to create a two-dimensional picture by introducing gradients in the magnetic field and received the Prize for his invention of MR imaging.Peter Mansfield (born 1933) received the award for further developent of the utilization of gradients in the magnetic field and the development of rapid imaging.

Lauterbur and Mansfield receiving their prizes from the King of Sweden
(© Nobel Foundation).

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_RINCK AND MULLER OF THE EMRF BOARD CONGRATULATE THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Stockholm, 10 December 2003. "We deeply appreciate this year's selection of laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Paul Lauterbur's and Peter Mansfield's contributions to medical imaging are pivotal and reflect the sense of the will of Alfred Nobel: for the benefit of mankind."

Peter A. Rinck and Robert N. Muller, Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Board, added after the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm: "The wealth of medical information that can be obtained with even only a single magnetic resonance image in a non-invasive way is one of the great leaps forward in modern medicine."

EMRF

The European Forum
for Magnetic Resonance Research and Application

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Painting by Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779). The boy is playing with one of the conventional, hand-held wooden tops.

Three spinning wooden tops. Stephen Graham Photography.

Tops made of myrtle wood.

Spinning top. Papua New Guinea. Before 1931. Spinning tops have been played with by children all over the world. This top is made from a pierced coconut shell on a wooden shaft. It has a hole in it, so that it hums as it spins. Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road Oxford.

Aluminum "turn-over" top, made for EMRF as a gift for conference participants.

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Mechanical metallic, sounding tops.

Wooden top, made for EMRF as a present to participants of teaching courses.

Spinning top in silver.

Two boys spinning tops. South Korean coin.

Glass top, made for EMRF from a glass dip pen as a gift for conference participants.

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